Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

Annual Checkup, pharmaceuticals for the 21st century

The pharmaceutical industry’s advertisement and communication is based on the promise of a physical faintness’ elimination and the consequent general well-being achievement, that seem then to be the most ‘natural’ life condition. This ‘magic’ effect is obtained through obscure organic reaction triggered by the ‘product’ ingestion. Shifting this simple cause/effect mechanism to a metaphorical level Annual Checkup by Lisa Erdman develops a political critique with printed and tv fake advertisements of pharmaceuticals. Combining the lure of finally being healthy and self-confident with the excess of propaganda, she has assembled adv for ‘Abstinen’ (prevention of premarital sexual activity in teens and young adults), ‘Jesurex’ (to treat symptoms of weakening faith or non-existent faith in Jesus Christ), ‘Patriotec’ (to treat symptoms of unpatriotic thoughts and behavior, especially during wartime), ‘Ethnivox’ (medication for racial and ethnic identity transformation), ‘Consumerin’ (effective for the treatment of shopping deficiency, and purchase anxiety) and ‘Homotrol’ (once-a-month tablet for treating homosexuality). The perfect and ‘classic’ graphic layout is screeching against the almost absurd propaganda content, part pessimistic science fiction, part very plausible neo-con normalization. Even if it’s easily taggable in the ‘fake’ domain, this work enhances the actual invasiveness of propaganda and the availability of the general public to swallow anything that would efficiently change their status.